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Formative Assessment Probes: Is It Melting? Formative Assessment for Teacher Learning
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Keeley, Page – Science and Children, 2013
Formative assessment probes are effective tools for uncovering students' ideas about the various concepts they encounter when learning science. They are used to build a bridge from where the student is in his or her thinking to where he or she needs to be in order to construct and understand the scientific explanation for observed phenomena.…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Faculty Development, Scientific Concepts, Misconceptions